Blog: Citizenspeak

I’d like to congratulate two Development Seed friends for their excellent work – work so great that it has won the nation’s top prize in public interest computing. George Hotelling beat out some stiff competition to win the Pizzigati PrizeCitizenSpeak!

A letter to the editor feature is essentially an extended petition where you collect names and messages, but instead of just storing them, you also send them off to the email address of whatever paper the user chooses. From a functionality standpoint the only semi-difficult part is handling the email addresses of newspapers, the rest of the functionality exists all over.